Ptilorhynchia (Proteorhynchia)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtilorhynchiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya93.9 Mya138 Mya85 Mya

3 occurrences of Ptilorhynchia (Proteorhynchia) on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

3 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Whisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WLa Péna — 25.07°N, 101.40°WCuesta del Carbonera — 25.47°N, 103.58°W

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The named rock units Ptilorhynchia (Proteorhynchia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ptilorhynchia (Proteorhynchia) and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Ptilorhynchia (Proteorhynchia) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ptilorhynchia (Proteorhynchia), and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Ptilorhynchia (Proteorhynchia) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ptilorhynchia (Proteorhynchia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ptilorhynchia (Proteorhynchia) was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPtilorhynchia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1981